Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-10-26
LOCAL ~ B w o.
BRIEF Mention.

BRIEF Mention.
Rubber bands by the pound at Dorman's.
A census of Shelton's population is being
taken by A. S. Burgess.
Frostfshing along the wharves at night is
now one of the popular Bridgeport amuse-
ments.
of St. Nicholas, the great magazine for young
people.
Rev. F. S. Hatch has declined the call to
the pastorate of the Colchester Congrega-
tional church.
Columbia lodge, Daughters of Rebekah, of
New Haven visited Eintrecht lodge of Meri-
den last evening.
Guards have their annual fall field day and
parade tomorrow.
The depot and woodshed at Bolton, on the
Naugstuok road, was burned Monday night,
causing a loss of $4,000.
Yam Phou Lee had a full house Monday
night at the Congregational church in Bris-
toll. The receipts were $54.
Detective Reilly, who has been searching
for the missing Cunning girl, has traced her
10 where bQ6 ID now.
Oriental Rose Croix chapter No. 522,
Royal Masonic Rite, holds an important
meeting tomorrow Thursday night.
Next Saturday is tbs day appointed for
Company G, Second regiment, to shoot for
badges at the Quinnipiac range at New Ha-
ven.
Ashland lodge of New York and Eel lodge
of New Haven will visit Mithra lodge, K. of
p, of Bridgeport on the evening of October
31st.
Rev. DR.. Fl. c. Hovey will lecture Thurs
day evening at the West End Congregational
church, Bridgeport, on acadia and the Blue
Noses"
Constable NJ. R. Enscoe has broken ground
for the erection of new So, 900 double frame
house, thirty rooms, on Edwards street, near
his residence.
Birmingham is to have no public borough
building this season as the committee in
charge of its construction have decided to lay
all plans aside until next season.
Conductor Hardness of the Consolidated
road, residing on Greenwich avenue, is much
better and his physician, DR.. Paul G. Skiff,
has good hope that he will recover.
Walter Camp has agreed to referee the
Pennsy1vania-Wesle football game which
occurs in New York on Thanksgiving day.
Hodge, of Princeton, is to be umpire.
The investigation by Medical Examiner
White disclosed that the death of Mary E.
Perkins of jackson street, Fair Haven, wife
of Homer @. Perkins, was due to neuralgia of
the heart.
Work has commenced upon the founda-
tions of Charles pyramids new block on the
canal bank in Ansonia in the rear of the
to tenements.
L. L. Loomer & Son, the corset manufac-
turers of Birmingham, begin work at their
Bridgeport branch to-day with thirty hands
in an upper room 200x60 in the Bridgeport
organ factory.
Harry T. Thompson, clerk at 81. B. ARM
stroDg's on Orange street, was married yes
terday morning to Miss Susie s. Hunt of
Providence, r. l., in that place. They left
ON bridal trip.
Mr.. Thomas Hines is sorely afflicted, hay
ing lost three members of his family within
the past two weeks. His daughter Nellie,
aged eight, died at the hospital Monday
night of typhoid fever.
Some of the cars of the Consolidated road
have already been fitted up with the Henney
system, which distributes heat directly from
the locomotive boiler. Other cars still have
the Baker stoves, but how long these will be
retained is question.
The barn on the Hall place, three miles
of ThnV ton, rrl,s I'll l.
81. Brace, was discovered to be on fire about
O'Clock Monday morning and was burned
to the ground, together with horse, cow
and cali belonging to Mr.. Brace.
Leader Rosenberg of Wheeler & Wilson's
band for twsnty-three years past, is about
to remove from Bridgeport to Baltimore.
Without "Rosy" the band will lose one of
its distinctive and most valuable PERSONAL
ties. His associates and Bridgeport general
ly will part with him with regret.
Professor Hugo Bruch from Berlin, an en-
inent piano teacher, pupil of the distin-
guished Concertmeister Eichler, teaches ac-
cording to the new and rapid method. He
has settled in our city and is ready to re-
ceive pupils at his residence, 100 Orange
street. See his advertisement for further par
ticulars.
President Clark of the Consolidated road
declares that there is no truth in the story
that the spur connecting the Naugatuck and
Consolidated roads on the east side at the
Naugatuck junction will not be completed.
He says its previous non-conpletion is due
to delay in getting the frog that has been
ordered for joining the tracks.